122 TWELFTH ANNUAL EEPOET. 



SANTALACE^. Sandalwood Family. 



C03IANDRA,Nutt. Bastard Toad-flax. 



C. pallida, A. DC* Bastard Toad-flax. 



Red river valley, Scott, determined by Mr. Sereno Watson. West. 



C unibellata, Nutt. Bastard Toad-flax. 

 Common throughout the state. 



C. livida, Richardson. Bastard Toad-flax. 



North shore of lake Superior, Juni; Stearns county, Mn. Blaisdell. [Isle Royale 

 (common), Whitney.] Korth. 



SAURURACEJ]. Lizard's-tail Family. 



SAURURUS,L. Lizakd's-tail. 



S. ceruuus, L. Lizard's-tail. 



Upper Mississippi river, Houghton. Infrequent. 



CERATOPHYLLACE^. Hornwort Family. 



CERATOPHYLLUM, L. Hornwort. 



C deniersuin, L. Hornwort. 



White Bear lake, Ramsey county, Kelley; lake Calhoun, Minneapolis, Upham; 

 small lakes at the Pipestone quarry (var. commune. Gray, with fruit about 3 lines long, 

 tipped with the stout straight style also about 3 lines long, and with a similar short 

 spine, 2 lines long, at tlie base on each side), Mrs Bennett. Probably common 

 throughout the state. 



CALLITRICHACE^. Water-Starwort Family. 



CALLITRICHE, L. Water-Starwort. 



C verna, L. Water-Starwort. 



Throughout the state. North of lake Superior (common), Roberts; Pembina, Hav- 

 ard; Cottonwood county, Upham. 



[0. autumnalis, L., probably occurs also in northern Minnesota.] 



wide, broadly ornarrowly elliptic, ratheracute at each end, or lanceolate and undulate, 

 silvery-scurfy and more or less ferruginous; flowers numerous, deflexed, silvery without, 

 pale yellow within, fragrant, 3 to 5 lines long, the tube broadly oval, the limb funnel- 

 form ; fruit [silvery in color, like the foliage] globose-ovoid, dry and mealy, edible, 4 or 

 5 lines in length. Watson's Rep. in Kino's Expl. of the Fortieth Parallel. 



*COMANDRA PALLIDA, A. DC. Stems several from a branched woody caudex, 

 herbaceous, striate, erect, 6 to 10 inches high, branching above; leaves alternate, 

 bluish, somewhat punctate on the margins, the lower elliptic oblong, mucronate-acute, 

 8 to 12 lines long and 2 to 3 lines wide, the uppermost usually linear-lanceolate, 5 to 10 

 lines long and about 1 line wide, sometimes so continued down the stem (forming var. 

 angustifolia) ; cymes terminal, few-flowered; bracts linear-lanceulate, 2 lines long; 

 floweis perfect ; calyx-lobes erect-spreading ; fruit 3 lines in diameter, with subfleshy 

 epicarp.— Flowers precisely as in C. umbellata ; distinguished especially by its narrowed 

 upper leaves and much larger fruit. Watson's Rep. in King's Expl. of the Fortieth 

 Parallel. 



